Factories are starting to use "3D Printers" (AKA Fabbers, see last week's blog entry, Link) to spot-manufacture replacement parts for critical manufactory apparatus. My great-aunt Lisa and great-uncle Bora used to have a machine-shop in the former Leningrad, where they made custom parts for cars and machines that were in short supply after Glasnost (they lost the shop when it was expropriated at gunpoint by the Russian Mob, who wanted the location: ah, sweet liberty!). Bet they woulda loved one of these. Link Discuss (via /.)
Factories are starting to use
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